The aim of the study was to examine how creative the employees in a company experience their work climate. We were interested to examine factors that inhibit and stimulate creativity at the workplace. We also wanted to investigate the effects of leadership on a creative work climate. A total of 5 employees were interviewed. The interview questions were based on the models' of Amabile, Ekvall a

This thesis is an inductive study of how collective memory in dyadic i.e. two-party negotiation is affected by the negotiating group's experience of negotiation. The primary question is: do similarities in negotiators' collective experiences i.e. their knowledge base and expertise about negotiation affect the conformity of the group's collective memory of a negotiation situation? In ot

The purpose of this exploratory study was to develop a questionnaire, which can be used to examine prevailing assumptions about the human nature in different organisations. The questionnaire comprised 15 questions, each answered by one of five alternatives related to respectively economic-rational, bureaucratic, social, self-actualisation or complex assumptions about the human nature. The question

The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the personality questionnaire 30 aspects, which is based on the five-factor model. Our aim was to investigate the properties of the questionnaire through explorative factor analysis and reliability ratings. We also set out to explore the factor structure of the test to decide whether the instrument agreed with the five-factor model or not. The ques

The intensity of contact with foreigners and its influence on the degree of stereotyping in foreign judgments was tested with a procedure developed by Dr. Bert Westerlundh (2001). This is the first time that Dr. Westerlundh's procedure is used. It consists of a questionnaire with (1) 12 racially-ethnically explicit pictures, in this work classified as White, Black and Yellow; (2) six cartoon i

The aim of the study was to determine whether, parenting styles of child - rearing impacted the children's self-concept. The hypothesis was tested from two questionnaires. The inquiry measuring parenting styles, was investigated by the authors, using "To be a parent" from Maccoby and Martins' schedule of different parenting styles. The children's self - consept were measured

This study examined if humanists are less prejudiced than normativists, and if normativists are more socially controlled than humanists. Can social dominance and right-wing authoritarianism predict prejudices? Is there a correlation between racism, and homophobia in explicit questionnaire measures of prejudice? How does a new test based on association between liked and disliked categories function

The aim of this study is to explore how people during their working day experience role shifts if they on the whole experience or are aware of any role shift. Do they need time to adjust themselves to different roles? To find out about this a pilot study with a phenomenological approach was performed by having 4 participants write short diaries about their thoughts, feelings and ideas when they ex

Facial expressions reveal emotion, and imitation of these expressions gives the imitator and understanding of how others feel. Are there gender differences in imitation of facial expressions? 61 male and female students participated in this study, where facial imitation was measured. The smiling (zygomatic) and frowning (corrugator) muscle was measured with EMG, as the participants viewed happy an

Godbiten Konditori AB is a company within the provision industry that has embarked upon a great organizational change. Organizational changes usually face great resistance. We have reviewed literature on this subject. The organizational development team at Godbiten AB has used an action-research approach, to minimize the problem of resistance and to improve the quality of the process. Our research

The experiment in this study was conducted to see whether counter stereotypic mental imagery effects individuals stereotyping, concerning their partners. The Sex-Role Inventory, constructed by Sandra Bem, was used. All together, 120 students at Lund University and Campus Helsingborg participated. The students answered the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) measuring themselves. 30 male participants wer

Studied the impact of accountability and mental load on judgments of morally wrong, disgusting, harmful events. 85 participants (32 male, 53 female) were randomly assigned into four groups in a 2 (accountability: y/n) x 2 (load: y/n) design. Participants read stories with vivid but morally irrelevant disgusting features and judged how morally wrong the actions were. It was predicted that participa

The aim of the study was to examine the importance of different sources of social support and self efficacy for work demands, concern for changes in the workplace and concern of loss of employment. A further aim was to investigate the meaning of information for self efficacy and job insecurity, and the relationship between social support and self efficacy. Questionnaires were collected from 70 emp

This study examine if students at upper secondary schools perceive politicians as an out-group. It also examined if there were any differences in these perceptions related to group factors such as social groups, sex or own political engagement. The testing was based on a method designed to measure how positive and negative behaviour was explained for. Behaviour descriptions were created with varia

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between perceived popularity, sociometric popularity and prosocial behaviour. To examine popularity 154 children were presented with a roster of their classmates and asked to nominate whom they liked, whom they disliked, whom they believed to be popular and whom they believed to be unpopular. To examine prosocial behaviour children were aske

Fiske and Operario (2001) found that high scores in Gough's (1987) dominance scale indicate behavior in situations of power. We studied it together with Empathy, Social Desirability, Social Dominance and Prejudice scales. Our sample were 270 women and 186 men aged 16-20. The Prejudice scales correlated positively and with social dominance. Social Desirability and Empathy were negatively relate

The increasing numbers of people who have been put on the sick list during the last years, have in several studies been related to organizational stress. The purpose of this study was to study stress, health, demands and control in relation to self-esteem and coping strategies. 71 women and six men (medical staff) completed a questionnaire with items from Brief Cope,Perceived stress scale, Rosenbe

The aviation branch use regulated procedures to control daily activities. Due to a mobile work environment with little room for mistakes a Swedish airline company has decided to create a computer aided incident reporting system to detect possible accidents before they occur. The goal is to create the necessary conditions for such a system by looking into the company's communication culture, in

The focus of this report is flexible work forms defined as; broad and variating work, with a high degree off autonomy, participation, responsibility and freedom to organize the work process, and the opportunity to obtain personal and professional development. The aim of the report is to obtain a greater understanding of what impact flexible work forms has on the well being of the individual partic

Doctors' health experiences are of importance in the daily debate on sick-leaves and health in general. The way in which doctors constitute meaning about health may give some explanation as to why the percentage of people on sick-leave rises while the employers are trying to improve the well-being in the workplaces. The purpose of this phenomenological and explorative study is therefore to fin